This post is an excerpt from my upcoming eBook Get Unstuck which launches next Tuesday 11th February. A workbook to create clarity, ignite your spark and keep you moving forward. Read to the bottom for details on how you can snap up your FREE copy and help me out by contributing some of your wonderful ideas to the book!

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It was during a coaching sesh with my blog and business coach – yep, coaches get coached – where she asked me ‘what problems do your readers face?’, that I realised I hadn’t asked you that question in a while.

You know, as a coach, creative, writer and blogger it’s incredibly important for me to feel useful.

I have a burning desire to make things better, to lift people up.

I want my work to empower you to show up and move forward. I want to be able to give you the tools you need to live the life you were born to live. In order to be of service however, I need to know what is holding you back. I need to know where your fears lie.

After pouring through your emails, responses on my social media and digging deep into my own stories and experiences, the idea for this workbook was born.

Here I have gathered the best tools, tips and tricks that I use with my clients – and personally – to create momentum, shift what needs to be shifted and swap confusion for clarity.

Naturally, I believe in the power of community and collaboration, so I’ve also gathered a little help from my friends. I’ve asked some of the best health and life coaches, professional travel bloggers, yoga teachers, spiritual mentors, creatives, writers, graphic designers and health professionals – some seriously inspiring ladies – to shed some light on how they get unstuck too.

Oh yes gorgeous, you’re in for a treat.

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But how did I get here? What do I know about getting unstuck?

Let’s look back shall we? In 2012, I’d just returned from 6 months backpacking around the world. I was living in Melbourne and working full time in a job that didn’t serve my soul.

I didn’t hate my job – it paid well, I had fancy business cards and I got to travel overseas – but I was far from inspired. I knew I wanted to feel creative and help people, but I had no clue what I wanted to do.

I was also adjusting to single life, slowly and painfully. I’d change my interests, personality and tastes to suit the dude I was dating. I was terrified that I was 25 and still hadn’t met Mr Right.

Since the age of 16, I’d weighed myself daily.Sometimes multiple times a day. The brain-space that my obsession with my body took up was suffocating.

I would spend my weekdays at the gym, munching salad and drinking green juice, but come the weekend, I’d sink booze on an empty stomach and spend my Sundays guilt-ridden, on the couch with greasy takeaway.

I felt like I was constantly worrying about money and not having enough. No matter how much moolah I earned, I was always scraping the bottom of my bank account and sinking further and further into debt.

I feared that I wasn’t a good enough daughter, friend, sister or employee.

I believed that what other people thought of me, defined who I was. I regularly felt confused, indecisive, frustrated and pissed off.

I was incredibly caught up in the ‘dilemma’ of spending my 20s either travelling the world or settling down and buying a house. I felt that was a decision I had to make, but whatever decision I made, I would probably regret it.

I wanted to make and teach stuff. I wanted to feel creative and with purpose. I wanted to nourish myself, without the bingeing and the guilt. I wanted to explore.

I wanted to look back on my life, and know in my heart that I had lived a full life.

But I was stuck. In every area of my life, I was stuck.

Let’s lighten the mood, shall we? Let’s fast forward to today.

Using the tools, tips and tricks I’m sharing with you in this workbook, today I can shout from the rooftops that I love my life in a way that I thought was only reserved for a lucky few.

Working as a coach, one on one with women who desire to live a full, healthy and happy life (and believe in their hearts that they deserve it), makes my heart sing. Writing feeds my soul. Connecting, creating and collaborating form my backbone.

I’ve found an intense love for the connection and space that comes with time alone – as well as finding freedom, authenticity and devotion in my relationships. I’ve given myself permission to be ME, no matter who I am with – or how hot the guy is!

I’ve learnt to love money – seriously! If there’s an area of my life I’m still working on, it’s this one. But my mindset has shifted dramatically, my abundance is growing and I’ve learnt that this is perfectly, wonderfully, more than OK. It’s my birth right.

No longer do I stress constantly about what other people think of me. Coming to the realisation that what other people think of me, actually has nothing to do with me, has changed my life.

Discovering the power in the present moment and the gift of gratitude has eased my fears surrounding the future. I’m OK with what is ahead of me, because I can – most of the time – trust the process and let go.

I’ve also grasped the reality that it’s perfectly normal to revel in our humanness and have moments of indecision, uncertainty and fear. In fact, these are integral threads in the fabric of life. And I have chosen to wrap myself (snugly) in it.

I have chosen to get unstuck. Continually, consciously, every day, I make this decision. Join me, won’t you?

With love,

Claire x

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Tell me gorgeous, how do YOU get unstuck? PS. I’ll be sharing some of your wonderful comments and ideas in my workbook! Power of community? Heck yeah. Over to you!

This looks fantastic, Claire! And your shift over the past two years is nothing short of inspiring. For myself, when I’m feeling stuck, I jump on my yoga mat. When I connect with the mat and allow myself to just be in the moment, everything seems to make more sense.

This is awesome Clare. Can’t wait for your e-book!!
When I need to get unstuck I listen to my body and mind and try to do what it is telling me – so have a short rest, read a book, listen to music, stretch, meditate, talk to my husband …

Oh Claire – can’t wait for your E-book,
So much of what you said resonated with me… I think for me it was unravelling into one of life’s not so fun things (a painful break up) that I finally began to come unstuck…. For the first time in 30 years, I stopped listening to my head and listened to my heart, and it certainly wasn’t an overnight process.. nearly 4 years later I am at a place where I can say, yep, this is good, life is good. But I know there is more unravelling to come, Shedding more skin, and I have faith the areas I feel stuck will begin to happen organically!
Although must say that exercise and deep conversations with friends really does help too!
xxxxx

You know Jane, you’ve just got me thinking on another section for the book… Just how much the crappy times get us unstuck. For me, definitely a breakup, personal illness and a family crisis have catapulted me into getting unstuck over the years. There will ALWAYS be something else to let go. Thank you for sharing honey, I love seeing your smiling face pop up here in the comments! x

Awesome post Claire, your timing is impeccable! I’ve been mud wrestling with ‘stuckness’ for about 6 months and it was FREAKING. ME. OUT. I had a lightbulb moment recently that the way for me to become unstuck was to stop desperately looking for the answer, to trust, and to be present during the amazing journey. It worked 😉 xx

For me, I break things down into actionable goals. I get accountable (part of the reason I started my blog was with the intention to share goals and progress). And I make it fun – determined to design? I get myself a pretty notebook that I ENJOY going to, little things like that. And next week I’ll be throwing crystals into the mix after Tara Bliss’s recent post.

And I ask for support, advice, hugs when necessary. I know that I can do it, but I also know it’s a hell of a lot easier if I have a cheerleading team!

This is such a great post – I loved reading about your journey and can’t WAIT for your eBook! I’ll be 25 this year and over the past few months I’ve felt this growing desire for ‘more’ (hence my blog name!) and just really getting to the bottom of what I feel passionate about and what I want + need to be doing to live a completely fulfilled life.

Hi Clair I truly enjoyed your post- specially your journey. We all face so many challenges in life and seeing that you overcome that place of stuck is very inspiring. I have myself suffer from that for quite a while now. I always get wonderful ideas but then I can’t move forward, or along the way I hit a wall and I get stuck. Really exited about your e-book it looks amazing and in perfect timing too!

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HI! I'M CLAIRE BAKER.

I'm an Australian women's coach and writer living in London. I teach the art of self-care, creative rekindling and how to live life by your menstrual cycle via my eBooks, workshops and online courses. I believe in telling the truth about our everyday (the ups and the downs) and I try my best to do that here. Twice a month-ish I email my community all the best bits. Can I include you?